Saturday, June 7, 2008

Religion, Intact Families, and the Achievement Gap

Dr. William Jeynes

William H Jeynes Professor - Department of Teacher Education Office: ED2 - 267 Phone: 562-985-5619 Email: wjeynes@csulb.edu 		William H. Jeynes Department of Education California State University at Long Beach. Non-Resident Research Fellow Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion.

New Baylor ISR Study Analyzes Minority Education Achievement Gap. Findings Reveal Similarities in Families Where Gap Is Eliminated.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The achievement gap between white students and their African American and Latino counterparts is not as immovable as many educators and social scientists believe, according to results from a new Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion analysis of the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS).
“The findings show that when highly religious African American and Latino students from intact families are compared with white students, the achievement gap disappears,” said Dr. William Jeynes, a non-resident scholar with the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) and professor of education at California State University in Long Beach.

Jeynes’ report was published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and released to the media April 3 in a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

WEB: Institute for Studies of Religion | News To download a complete study go to the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion

posted by sookietex at 6:07 PM

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Links to this post:

Create a Link

<< Home



From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington.




View My Stats

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.

African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period.

Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans. African-American popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook.